BEHIND THE SCENES AT WALL STREET

Robinhood Lends “Your” Shares to Short Sellers (and Keeps All the Proceeds)

How zero-commission trading platforms earn money behind the curtains

Asger Bruhn
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
5 min readJan 31, 2021

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Photo by Patrick Weissenberger on Unsplash

Robinhood is currently subject to a lot of criticism.

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I’m an economist doing policy design and analysis. I write about the economy, taxation, innovation and growth, policy design, and financial markets.